ḥaliza
Ḥaliza or ḥalitsa (Heb.). ‘Taking off the shoe’, part of the ritual arising from levirate marriage if the brother of a dead man (without male descendant) wishes to repudiate his obligation to marry the widow. The description is in Deuteronomy (25. 5–10).
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